correctly

Adverb

Meaning

In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

right exactly aright precisely accurately just well good true righteously okey correct proper specifically appropriate
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Antonyms

incorrectly however unfortunately approximately partly wrong
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Related terms

politically correctly

Phrases with the word

spell not correctly correctly speaking correctly articulated correctly declared spell correctly write correctly

Examples

If you've come to church to find holy people, you've made a mistake. If you came to find God, you chose correctly. John Chrysostom

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever. Niklaus Wirth

Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present. Thomas Babington Macaulay

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. Woody Allen

Rather a bit correctly than much incorrectly. Norwegian Proverb

Do it again; correctly this time. Swedish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

corrective statement correctively correctiveness correctly articulated correctly declared correctly expressed